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University Archives and Records Center [Contact Us]
1817-2005
(Bulk: 1925-1983)
Creator:
Alexander family.,
Alexander, Raymond Pace, 1898-1974, Alexander, Sadie Tanner Mossell, 1898-1989, Alexander, Virginia Margaret, 1900-1949, Anderson, Elizabeth Mossell, -1975, Extent: 250 cubic feet
Raymond Pace Alexander (1897-1974) and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander (1898-1989) were pioneers among African Americans in
the legal profession and leaders in public affairs, politics, and government throughout the middle half of the twentieth century.
Raymond Pace Alexander was a graduate of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1920 and from Harvard Law
School in 1923. Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander earned all three of her degrees (A.B. 1918, M.A. 1919, and Ph.D. 1921) from
the University of Pennsylvania. The Alexander Papers constitute a highly significant resource for the social and political
history of the city of Philadelphia and, in particular, for the history of the city's black professional and political elite,
black civic organizations, and institutions concerned with race relations and civil rights.
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts [Contact Us]
1827-1961
(Bulk: 1852-1961)
Extent: 0.4 linear foot (1 box)
This is a collection of Book-of-the-Month club news, mailings, and offers along with a few examples of other book-seller related
materials such as advertisements, catalogs, lists, and financial and business documents, mostly receipts. The bulk of the
collection is from the years 1850 to 1961 with a few outlying documents from the 1820s to 1840s.
Penn Museum Archives [Contact Us]
1826-1995
(Bulk: 1898-1960)
Extent: 16 linear feet
The American Section was one of the first to evolve during the early development of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
The University Archaeological Association established in 1887 and later, the American Exploration Society, established in
1892, exhibited several small collections in College Hall before the building campaign for the museum began. Charles Abbott
was the first curator of the section succeeded by Henry C. Mercer and then Stewart Culin who was also named Director in 1899.
Each succeeding curator was responsible for adding collections, many of them representing their own expeditions in the United
States, Alaska, Mexico, Central America and South America. Records in the files are dated from 1826 through the 1980s. The
transfer of materials to the Archives took place piecemeal and without a central organization. The current re-processing placed
the files into three series, Deaccessions and Loans, Collectors and Collections and Exhibits.
Penn Museum Archives [Contact Us]
1883-2014
(Bulk: 1920-1936)
Creator:
Scott, Alexander
Extent: 0.2 linear foot
Alexander Scott was born in 1854 in Camberwell, Surrey, the son of the famed British portrait painter for the Illustrated
London News, Thomas Dewel Scott. He became known as a world traveler, landscape painter and collector of Asian antiquities.
This collection was donated to the Penn Museum in 2011 by Anne Bowbeer, the wife of Alexander Scott's nephew, following the
death of Mabel Scott Hall, Alexander Scott's widow
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts [Contact Us]
1801-1961
(Bulk: 1907-1960)
Creator:
Quinn, Arthur Hobson, 1875-1960, Author
Extent: 46.2 linear feet (93 boxes)
Arthur Hobson Quinn (1875-1960) was a professor and dean of English and History at the University of Pennsylvania and an internationally
recognized authority on the history of American drama. This collection contains material representative of Quinn’s entire
professional life: correspondence, manuscripts of books and articles, lecture notes, reviews of contemporary plays, his collection
of playbills and libretti, and material related to his research on Edgar Allan Poe and the American realist playwright James
A. Herne.
Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies [Contact Us]
1739-1981
(Bulk: 1880-1981)
Extent: 7 linear feet (15 document cases and 2 short top boxes)
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts [Contact Us]
1818-2000
(Bulk: 1907-1998)
Creator:
Charlotte Cushman Club (Philadelphia, Pa.).
Extent: 16.6 linear feet (26 boxes)
Founded in 1907, the Charlotte Cushman Club was originally intended to provide respectable lodgings for actresses appearing
in Philadelphia theaters. In the years of World War II the Club ceased to provide residential services, becoming a favorite
gathering place of theater lovers as well as of the many actresses and actors visiting the city with their touring companies.
The Charlotte Cushman Club Records offer insight into the activities, the administration, and the membership of the Club during
the whole life of the organization, until its closure in 1998. The collection also includes part of the holdings of the former
Club’s museum and library.
Barbara Bates Center for the Study of The History of Nursing [Contact Us]
1769-1988
(Bulk: 1906-1988)
Creator:
Chestnut Hill Hospital School of Nursing.
Extent: 20.45 linear feet
The Chestnut Hill Hospital School of Nursing Records consist of 20.45 linear feet of hospital records, school administration
records, faculty and student files, yearbooks, photographs, and some artifacts. The records extend from the school's creation
in 1908 until its closing in 1987. The collection comprehensively documents the growth of a suburban community hospital nurse
training program.
University Archives and Records Center [Contact Us]
1787-1955
(Bulk: 1920-1955)
Creator:
Weygandt, Cornelius, 1871-1957,
Extent: 5 cubic feet
Cornelius Weygandt attended the University of Pennsylvania and received his PhD in 1901. Weygandt had a fifty-five year career
as a teacher in the Department of English at Penn, and also obtained literary success for his storytelling skills. The Cornelius
Weygandt Papers document his literary efforts primarily from the 1920s to the 1950s. The majority of the collection contains
unpublished of essays and books he had prepared and may have planned to publish.
University Archives and Records Center [Contact Us]
1759-1976
(Bulk: 1860-1920)
Extent: 23 cubic feet
The Curriculum and Lecture Notes Collection was created by the University Archives in the 1950s to assemble individual manuscripts
and small groupings of archival material relating to courses taught at the University of Pennsylvania throughout its entire
history. This collection documents the teaching methods used in the various schools of the University of Pennsylvania throughout
its history.
University Archives and Records Center [Contact Us]
1875-1995
(Bulk: 1889-1955)
Creator:
Singer, Edgar A., (Edgar Arthur), 1873-1955,
Extent: 5.25 cubic feet
The Edgar Arthur Singer, Jr. Papers documents the career and life of University of Pennsylvania Professor of Philosophy Edgar
Arthur Singer, Jr. The collection consists primarily of lecture materials, addresses, and copies of publications – particularly
material on his final work Experience and Reflection.
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts [Contact Us]
1886-1984
(Bulk: 1917-1960)
Creator:
Goldsmith, Enid Frank, 1888-1983
Extent: 1.2 linear feet (3 boxes)
Enid Frank Goldsmith, the sister of Waldo Frank (1889-1967), was born on March 30, 1888, and died on December 7, 1983. The
letters in this collection span several generations and mainly include correspondence between various members of the Frank
and Goldsmith families between 1886 and 1984. The majority of the letters are either written to or by Enid Goldsmith between
1917 and 1960. Other prominent writers include Waldo Frank, Julius J. Frank, and Morton Goldsmith.
University Archives and Records Center [Contact Us]
1776-2004
(Bulk: 1860-1960)
Creator:
Frazer family.
Frazer, John Fries, 1812-1872 Frazer, John, 1882-1964 Frazer, Persifor, 1736-1792 Frazer, Persifor, 1844-1909 Extent: 55 cubic feet
The Frazer Family Papers span over 200 years of an American family. The collection provides insight into five generations
of University of Pennsylvania alum as well as three generations of educators, all in the field of chemistry, at the University
of Pennsylvania and contains the papers of Persifor Frazer, Robert Frazer, John Fries Frazer, Persifor Frazer, Robert Frazer,
John Frazer, John Frazer, Jr., and Tench Frazer, as well as a range of other family members and relatives. The collection
is particularly strong in representing the professional and personal activities of Persifor Frazer (1844-1909) and his son
John Frazer (1882-1964) from the 1860s to the 1950s.
University Archives and Records Center [Contact Us]
1889-1992
(Bulk: 1924-1982)
Creator:
Harnwell, G. P., (Gaylord Probasco), 1903-1982,
Extent: 30 cubic feet
Gaylord P. Harnwell was a physicist and president of the University of Pennsylvania from 1953 – 1970. The Gaylord P. Harnwell
Papers document various aspects of his personal and professional life.
University Archives and Records Center [Contact Us]
1797-1956
(Bulk: 1889-1956)
Creator:
Pepper, George Wharton, 1867-1961,
Extent: 39 cubic feet
George Wharton Pepper, an 1862 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, was a distinguished Philadelphia lawyer and U.S.
Senator from Pennsylvania. The George Wharton Pepper Papers document his personal and professional life.
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts [Contact Us]
1760-1963
(Bulk: 1840-1950)
Extent: 2.5 linear feet
Gordon Alexander Block (1885-1964) was a Philadelphia lawyer and collector of Lincoln documents and memorabilia. The collection
includes twenty-three documents either signed by Lincoln or in his hand including a number of pleadings and court documents
from his years as a lawyer in Illinois. The collection also contains a variety of ephemera from the Civil War era, including
campaign ribbons and songbooks from 1860 and 1864 as well as broadsides, ribbons, and mourning cards issued after Lincoln’s
assassination. In addition, researchers will find a rich selection of visual representations of Lincoln in the collection,
including lithographs, prints, photographs, and engravings of the sixteenth president.
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts [Contact Us]
1575-1991
(Bulk: 1812-1930)
Creator:
Furness Family
Extent: 10 linear feet (20 boxes and one oversized folder)
The H.H. Furness Memorial Library focuses on the study of Shakespeare and other Tudor and Stuart dramatists. Horace Howard
Furness (1833-1912) and his son Horace Howard Furness Jr. (1865-1930) founded and edited the Variorum Shakespeare and their
library was donated to the University of Pennsylvania in 1932. This collection contains personal correspondence to and from
Rev. William Henry Furness (1802-1896), Horace Howard Furness, and Horace Howard Furness, Jr., largely relating to Shakespearean
study and the H.H. Furness Memorial library; notebooks; copies of speeches and articles; and other assorted items relating
to Shakespearean scholarship or to the Furness family.
University Archives and Records Center [Contact Us]
1798-1990
(Bulk: 1918-1990)
Creator:
Scheie, Harold G., (Harold Glendon), 1909-,
Extent: 41 cubic feet
Harold Scheie was a noted ophthalmologist at the University of Pennsylvania. The Harold Glendon Scheie Papers mainly document
the professional contributions and achievements of Dr. Scheie in the field of Ophthalmology. There is a small group of personal
papers, but these papers, in large part, still reflect in some way upon his devotion to his profession.
Barbara Bates Center for the Study of The History of Nursing [Contact Us]
1871-1977
(Bulk: 1918-1925)
Extent: 0.2 linear feet
Irene Matthews is a nurse historian who spent part of her career researching notable women who served as nurses in the military
services. This collection includes the files that Matthews created while researching several women for a proposed publication
entitled Dictionary of Early Nurses.
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts [Contact Us]
1882-1999
(Bulk: 1920-1950)
Creator:
Gertzman, Jay A., Collector
Extent: 4 linear feet (4 boxes)
Jay A. Gertzman is professor emeritus of English at Mansfield University. This collection includes research material collected
and used by Jay Gertzman to produce his book Bookleggers and Smuthounds: The Trade in Erotica, 1920-1940;. Documents collected
here pertain to the proliferation and censorship of erotic material in the era between the two World Wars.
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts [Contact Us]
1869-1950
(Bulk: 1880-1932)
Creator:
McMaster, John B. , Author
Extent: 16.5 linear feet (40 boxes)
John Bach McMaster (1852-1932) was an American writer and professor best known for his landmark history of the United States,
A History of the People of the United States, which appeared in eight volumes from 1883 to 1913. McMaster’s historical technique
was notable in its use of newspaper material and his insistence on providing social context from all classes, not simply the
political leaders of the time. This collection contains correspondence, writings by McMaster, material used by McMaster in
his research, and personal material, such as newspaper clippings of his life and work, testimonials by colleagues, and memorabilia.
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts [Contact Us]
1885-1958
(Bulk: 1903-1958)
Creator:
Haney, John Louis, 1877-1960, Author
Extent: 8 linear feet (16 boxes )
This collection contains material related to the professional, academic, and personal life of John Louis Haney (1877-1960),
a high school principal, scholar, and book collector. It contains correspondence; research notes on various topics; and manuscript
drafts of essays, talks, and radio transcripts, as well as an inventory of his library and journals concerning his undergraduate
and graduate education.
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts [Contact Us]
1847-1981
(Bulk: 1927-1978)
Creator:
Wharton School. Lippincott Library.
Extent: 4.2 linear feet (5 boxes)
The Lippincott Library supports business related research at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Corporate
annual reports were originally collected by the library as a resource for business students. These reports typically provide
financial information and updates on operations. The collection includes reports of companies from a variety of industries
including agriculture, energy, food, and transportation.
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts [Contact Us]
1880-2004
(Bulk: 1898-1975)
Creator:
Mahler, Alma, 1879-1964
Werfel, Franz, 1890-1945 Extent: 134 boxes
The collection comprises the personal papers of Alma Mahler, the personal and professional papers of Franz Werfel, memorabilia
related to Gustav Mahler, and the research files of Adolf D. Klarmann concerning Franz Werfel. Materials include correspondence
to and from Alma Mahler and Franz Werfel, as well as to and from Adolf Klarmann, sometimes on behalf of Alma; writings of
Alma, such as diaries and memoirs, as well as her musical compositions; writings of Werfel, such as poems, plays, novels,
novellas and stories, and essays; memorabilia relating to Alma, her parents, Gustav Mahler, and Werfel, such as clippings,
programs, and personal documents; photographs; and audio files, such as interviews and songs. Also included are Klarmann’s
research notes and writings on Werfel, as well as material relating to Klarmann’s work as editor of Werfel’s writings.
University Archives and Records Center [Contact Us]
1881-1955
(Bulk: 1881-1922)
Creator:
Medico-Chirurgical College of Philadelphia.
Extent: 21.5 cubic feet
The Medico-Chirurgical College had its origins in 1848 as the Medico-Chirurgical Society, but it would not be until 1881 that
Dr. George P. Oliver, who had been a member of the old society and held title to the new charter, organized a faculty to hold
classes. In 1916 Medico-Chirurgical College’s Department of Medicine and the Department of Dentistry merged with the University
of Pennsylvania. The Medico-Chirurgical College and Hospital of Philadelphia Records consist mainly of administrative and
financial records for the College and Hospital from the late nineteenth through to it's merger with the University of Pennsylvania
in 1916.
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